Yep. All plugged and killed and over. The U.S. government and BP agree on this. Only problem is, I haven't believed a word that either the U.S. government or BP has had to say about this catastrophe from day one. That's because both entities - or perhaps they're the same entity operating under two different names - have been caught lying and burying evidence repeatedly. As far as I'm concerned, they're still lying and still burying evidence.

Thankfully, there are still a few bloggers and independent investigators who are keeping up with the story, poking their heads into dangerous crannies and risking fines and imprisonment to tell us the truth. And the truth is that the "leak" is not plugged and never will be, and that Corexit is being sprayed nonstop, both above and below the water's surface, to keep the evidence hidden and keep BP's liability to a minimum. That will not change until pressure equilibrium between the water above the seabed and the hydrocarbons below is finally achieved by the "reservoir" of oil effectively running dry. And that could be two or more decades from now, by which time everything and everyone in the Gulf of Mexico and surrounding region will be dead.

The best way to shirk liability is to outlive those who have a claim on you.

Yep DEAD for hundreds of Miles around.

That reminds me of what an EXXON executive said after the Alaskan spill. "We can stall paying for this until the litigants have all died and it becomes moot."

Between that policy and the fact that the courts reduced their fines and liability to just a tad of what they owed, it worked.

With this coming from AP and the mainstream US media, it should be taken with a grain of salt at the minimum. Skepticism is indeed called for here.

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Is there any current reliable evidence that there are indeed still undisclosed or officially ignored fissures, or the equivalent of open wounds, resulting from the ruptured well?

I'm feeling permanently dazed by Future Shock as the months pass, so maybe I missed something.

I know there were strident claims that the BP, government, and media focus on the wellhead was/is, at least in part, a deliberate misdirection play to suppress news of extensive and unacknowledged catastrophic damage to the seabed away from the well.

And of course, civil and corporate authorities allied to restrict independent third-party access, observation, and reporting during the entire debacle.

But what's the status of these claims? There are still YouTube videos warning about the unreported "real" catastrophe(s), but highly technical sites, e.g. "The Oil Drum" aren't making noise about it. Just wondering.

Understanding the nature of these for profit at any cost corporations, you can bet on one thing, it is not as they say it is. Just like Chevron, BP will try to hide the devastation, or minimize it or hide it outright. Just imagine the Gulf of Mexico compromised for decades under the stewardship of these multinational corporations.

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The only thing Reagan said which is wise:

"Trust, but verify."

Is Obama going to get the Coast Guard to verify this claim. I doubt it.

i just drove from burlington, vermont to brownsville, texas and i never once filled up at a BP station. i would rather run out of gas than give my money to that company
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If it wasn't plugged, more oil would be coming ashore, or at least that's what one would expect. I doubt they could get it all with corexit. Nevertheless, trust with respect to this whole event is not easy to come by. If they really did plug the well thousands of feet below the ocean floor, that particular well is likely 'dead.' Still, without an independent investigation and pictures, how can anyone be sure?

There was an article during the spill that independents had observed other plumes coming up through the bottom, the idea being that there may well be other cracks in the drill pipe.

The only time I believe a corporation is when they give out their annul statement to the stockholders, and even that with a grain of salt.

Remember Goldman Sachs complaining that they were near bankruptcy and if they didn't get a trillion or so bailout, they would go under and take the world banking system with them. They got it, and promptly told their stockholders that it was the most profitable quarter in their history. Our taxes.

I feel about banksters like I felt about Nixon. I said I wouldn't believe he was dead until I saw him buried at a crossroads, with a stake through his heart, his head cut off, placed between his legs with the mouth stuffed with garlic.